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...medical school to study spirituality and religion in Cambodia by joining a shadow puppet troupe. Tao said she intends to live and perform with these master artists to study the spiritual influences on the art form, an ancient form of storytelling in Cambodia. She also hopes to partner with NGOs that are currently using shadow puppetry as a medium to spread awareness about public health. Seven seniors out of 100 applicants received the fellowships this year. Last year, 86 people applied for five awards...
...Many courts simply refuse to take certain cases. "If the subject is sensitive or new, most judges will just decide they don't want the hassle," says Guo Jianmei, founder of the Peking University Center for Women's Law and Legal Services, one of China's first legal-aid NGOs. Even when they do take such cases, judges are often instructed how to rule by Communist Party-controlled supervisory organs called politics and law committees, or simply pressured by the local governments that pay their salaries...
Critically, this year has seen two pieces of highly controversial legislation. One law requires all nongovernmental organizations (ngos) to reregister with the state and submit detailed plans about their activities; a second revises an earlier law that attempts to control political extremism. (Both were used against Dmitrievsky.) Putin has said that the extremism law will improve Russian security in an era of terrorism, while Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov asserts that the ngo legislation is actually less restrictive than similar laws in France, Finland and Israel. Foreign groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch that have reregistered...
...diarrhea a year. Based on studies by the country's government and the World Bank, and by the Ethiopian Ministry of Health, between 50,000 and 112,000 Ethiopian children under 5 die from diarrhea every year. So for the past three years, unicef, the government, churches and ngos have led a campaign to teach Ethiopians the basic principles of hygiene, the importance of washing their hands and how to build their own toilets. The government has also trained health extension workers, mostly women, who can then teach other villagers about sanitation...
...that doctors and scientists can work to prevent repeats. That's in contrast to most of Africa and to neighboring Burma, Cambodia and Laos, which Wandee says resist public counts of diarrhea cases lest they put off foreign investors and tourists. "If the governments do their job and allow ngos to reach down to the community level," Wandee says, "we could save more people. We could prevent 2 million deaths a year if we could reach out to all the villages." Saving 2 million lives a year, you might think, is a cause with which politicians and movie stars would...